Hall Marks on Gold & Silver Plate: Illustrated with Revised Tables of Annual Date Letters Employed in the Assay Offices of England, Scotland and IrelandReeves and Turner, 1905 - 299 pàgines |
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Hall Marks on Gold & Silver Plate: Illustrated with Revised Tables of Annual ... William Chaffers Visualització completa - 1905 |
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22 karats alloy ancient Apostle Spoon Ashford assay mark Assay Master Assay Office assayed and marked assayer bearing bowl Britannia century chalice Chester circa CLAUSE coins counterfeit countermark Cup and Cover cupel CYCLE Date Letter Dublin duty dwts England engraved escutcheon Ewer Exeter FIVE STAMPS fleur-de-lis FREEMASONRY George GEORGE III gold and silver gold or silver Goldsmiths grains Hall Hall-marks Henry Henry VII Ireland jewels karats leopard's head crowned Letter Sovereign's head Lion passant London maces maker Maker's Initials maker's mark manufacture metal ordinances ornamented ounces Paris paten Paul de Lamerie penalty pennyweights piece of plate placed pound troy punch Queen R. T. Frere REPEALED repoussé Royal Burgh Salt seal Sect shield silver and gilt Silver gilt silver plate silver wares silversmith Sovereign's head Initials Staniforth statute stem Tankard Tazza Temple Frere trade troy weight Two-handled vessels Wardens weight William
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Pàgina xvii - And all King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver, it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
Pàgina iv - Hall Marks on Gold and Silver Plate." Chaffers (W.) Gilda Aurifabrorum, a History of English Goldsmiths and Platewprkers and their Marks stamped on Plate, copied in facsimile from celebrated Examples and the earliest Records preserved at Goldsmiths...
Pàgina 76 - Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the Bankrupt Laws ; and i This and the two preceding motions were lost by large majorities.
Pàgina 34 - ... and intended to imitate the same ; and also every person, except as before excepted, who shall knowingly have in his possession, without lawful excuse (the proof whereof shall lie on the person accused), any paper whatever in the substance whereof shall appear any such...
Pàgina 231 - French metrical system is based upon the (assumed) length of the fourth part of a terrestrial meridian. The ten-millionth part of this arc was chosen as the unit of measures of length, and called a Metre.
Pàgina xvi - And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning "work.
Pàgina 25 - The Wardens and Commonalty of the Mystery of Goldsmiths of the City of London.
Pàgina 7 - ... sea, that it might be exported. And so they made false work of gold and silver, as bracelets, lockets, rings, and other jewels; in which they set glass of divers colours, counterfeiting right stones, and put more alloy in the silver than they ought, which they sold to such as had no skill in such things.